B. A. COURSE.
General Mechanics.—In this course, which comprises the
work in Mechanics for the B. A. degree, the subjects
studied are Statics, Strength of Materials, Graphical Statics,
and the Elementary Dynamics of a Particle and a Rigid
Body. Elementary mathematical methods are employed;
but no student is prepared to undertake the course who has
not a sound working knowledge of Algebra. Geometry,
and Plane Trigonometry, with the elements of Analytical
Geometry.
Text-Books.—Wright's Theoretical Mechanics; Jacoby's Graphical
Statics; Merriman's Mechanics of Materials; Lectures.
